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Minorities to protest inferiority theory
By Larry Tuck
staff writer
Minority students are organizing to protest the theories of William Shockley, a Nobel-prize-winning physicist at Stanford University, who will speak here Tuesday.
Shockley says that blacks are genetically inferior to Caucasians in terms of intelligence. He will debate the issue with Richard Goldsby. a geneticist from the University of Maryland.
The Associated Black Students of Southern California and MECHA, an organization of Chicano students, are cooperating to set up the protest.
Chris Winfrey, director of university affairs for the associated black students, said that students are not protesting Shockley’s appearance on campus, but rather his theories, which they consider racist.
Student protests have kept Shockley from appearing on many other college campuses, including UCLA.
“We’re for a more democratic approach,” Winfrey said. “We want to allow him freedom of speech but at the same
time express our disapproval.”
The protest will consist of a mass demonstration before Shockley’s arrival, and picketing of the debate.
Organizers emphasized that the demonstration will be peaceful. They will meet with university officials to make sure there will be no problems.
Marva Smith, a graduate student in urban planning who is involved in the protest, said that students would not be hassled or stopped from attending the debate.
Smith said her main concern was that Shockley is “receiving university and student money to speak on these theories.” (The speech is funded by The Campus Speakers Bureau.)
“It shouldn’t be a money-making enterprise, especially for a person who’s not a geneticist.”
Goldsby will also be paid for appearing, but Winfrey said, “Neither should (be paid), but the one wouldn’t be there without the other. It’s like Muhammad Ali fighting anybody: they’re both there, but people are just there to see one guy.”
Winfrey said the minority organizations hope to have well-informed representatives at the debate to ask Shockley questions.
Victoria Yanez of MECHA said although Shockley’s theories are about blacks, they affect all minorities by contributing to feelings of racial inferiority. She objected to the fact that Shockley is instilling this philosophy in future professionals, biasing their viewpoints.
Molly Arias, also of MECHA, said the theory had been taught as proven fact in her psychology class.
“Most people believe it,” Smith said. “In this society, where there is a privileged class, anything that justifies-the separation between black and white will be used.
“I just wonder what his (Shockley’s) intent is.”
Shockley has denied that he is a racist. He says that his objective is to encourage objective scientific analysis of the problem.
Ethnic groups suffering from what he calls “dysgenics”—genetic decline—can be helped by such research, he says.
Datly fg§ Trojan
Volume L \VIII, No. 35
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Thursday, November 6, 1975
Coverage of Madrid unrest called misleading
By Sherie Stark
staff writer
The American news coverage of the recent political unrest in Spain presents a misleading image that contradicts the feeling of security that USC students studying there have, the director of the Madrid Semester said in a letter to the International Programs Office.
“We are unanimous in our surprise at the way recent, very limited acts of terrorism have been seen by the media as evidence that this country is on the brink of widespread confrontation,” Tom Haigh, the director, said.
The unrest Haigh’s letter refers to is a cycle of violent uprisings which began in January, 1974. In the past month, there have been a number of executions of antigovernment terrorists and assassinations of policemen.
The violence has been attributed to
far-left activists and Basque separatists in northern Spain. It has centered around Madrid, where the 14 USC students are attending school this semester, along with students from Vassar, Claremont, Mid-dlebury and Bryn Mawr colleges.
In a letter to the Daily Trojan, one of the students agreed with Haigh’s comment that American media coverage of Spain’s unrest had surprised the students, and said that she hadn’t felt the turmoil that was reported to exist.
“Of course I only know what the government permits its people to know about its political situation,” said Mary Suttie, a junior in international relations. “The newspapers are censored, which means what they wish to be kept secret you will not know.
“I have not felt any changes that have taken place since I arrived because of political actions. I live in extremely
pleasant surroundings and feel comfortable almost everywhere I go.”
In spite of the political situation, she said she enjoys the freedom of travel in the country and the cultural and educational experiences the semester program has offered her thus far.
Since they arrived in Spain, Haigh has told students that walking in Madrid at night was safer than walking at night in many parts of the United States. He said they have found this to be the case throughout the ordeals.
“The mass of this society... abhor the use of violence as a means to accomplish political ends,” Haigh wrote. “The mentality of the people has changed a great deal in 40 years, perhaps due to their present prosperity and the memory of the harshness of the civil war of the 30s.” Haigh said that, while the opinions of the students vary with the political bias of
each, all agree that they are living in a period in Spain’s development that is particularly interesting to those in the program concerned with political evolution.
“We are finding that to really begin to understand another country in either a political, historical or cultural sense, one has to weigh what one reads in the papers or what one studies in the classroom in the context ofthe whole society,” he said.
The university’s center, which was formerly the site of the U.S. Embassy, is located in a suburban area of Madrid. Most of the students are living with families near the center.
The students have majors that range from international relations to cinema. Most are juniors, but there are a few graduate students.
An estimated 50 students from this university will be participating in the program this spring.
PUBLICITY STUNT
‘Vampires’ donate blood for Red Cross drive
Some people say it is better to give than receive, but most people don’t associate this axiom with vampires.
Nine vampires arrived on Wednesday at the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house in a black limousine to give blood (their own) to the American Red Cross Blood Bank.
The purpose of the event was to publicize the Red Cross blood drive and to publicize reruns of the Dark Shadows television show.
The vampires had a different story though. They said that they were giving blood to commemorate National Vampire Friendship Month, as proclaimed by the Vampire Friendship Alliance of America.
The vampires said the month following Halloween is a slow one. They are trying to take advantage of their slow period to improve their public image. Their participation in the blood drive is an effort to present them in a different light.
The arrival ofthe vampires was witnessed by a number of surprised Row residents and several television and radio crews who were present to report the event.
Several of the vampires were not allowed to give blood because they were underweight. One vampire said, “I didn’t get enough blood last month, so they wouldn’t let me give blood today. I’m going out tonight to get some blood.”
The nurses were surprised by their unexpected guests. “I brought my cross to protect me,” Sandy Cooper, a nurse said.
Another nurse said, “I’m surprised they are giving blood instead of taking it.”
Four vampires gave blood while their comrades stood over them hissing, howling and posing for cameramen.
The vampires are actually actresses and models hired to publicize the blood drive and the television show.
The blood drive will continue today and Friday at the YWCA from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Students do not have to be vampires to participate.
I WANT YOUR BLOOD—Nine "vampires" gave blood, rather than received it, at the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house Wednesday. The vampires were on hand to publicize a week-long Red Cross
blood drive and reruns for the television show Dark Shadows. The blood will be donated to the American Red Cross Blood Bank. DT photo by Bob Selan.

Minorities to protest inferiority theory
By Larry Tuck
staff writer
Minority students are organizing to protest the theories of William Shockley, a Nobel-prize-winning physicist at Stanford University, who will speak here Tuesday.
Shockley says that blacks are genetically inferior to Caucasians in terms of intelligence. He will debate the issue with Richard Goldsby. a geneticist from the University of Maryland.
The Associated Black Students of Southern California and MECHA, an organization of Chicano students, are cooperating to set up the protest.
Chris Winfrey, director of university affairs for the associated black students, said that students are not protesting Shockley’s appearance on campus, but rather his theories, which they consider racist.
Student protests have kept Shockley from appearing on many other college campuses, including UCLA.
“We’re for a more democratic approach,” Winfrey said. “We want to allow him freedom of speech but at the same
time express our disapproval.”
The protest will consist of a mass demonstration before Shockley’s arrival, and picketing of the debate.
Organizers emphasized that the demonstration will be peaceful. They will meet with university officials to make sure there will be no problems.
Marva Smith, a graduate student in urban planning who is involved in the protest, said that students would not be hassled or stopped from attending the debate.
Smith said her main concern was that Shockley is “receiving university and student money to speak on these theories.” (The speech is funded by The Campus Speakers Bureau.)
“It shouldn’t be a money-making enterprise, especially for a person who’s not a geneticist.”
Goldsby will also be paid for appearing, but Winfrey said, “Neither should (be paid), but the one wouldn’t be there without the other. It’s like Muhammad Ali fighting anybody: they’re both there, but people are just there to see one guy.”
Winfrey said the minority organizations hope to have well-informed representatives at the debate to ask Shockley questions.
Victoria Yanez of MECHA said although Shockley’s theories are about blacks, they affect all minorities by contributing to feelings of racial inferiority. She objected to the fact that Shockley is instilling this philosophy in future professionals, biasing their viewpoints.
Molly Arias, also of MECHA, said the theory had been taught as proven fact in her psychology class.
“Most people believe it,” Smith said. “In this society, where there is a privileged class, anything that justifies-the separation between black and white will be used.
“I just wonder what his (Shockley’s) intent is.”
Shockley has denied that he is a racist. He says that his objective is to encourage objective scientific analysis of the problem.
Ethnic groups suffering from what he calls “dysgenics”—genetic decline—can be helped by such research, he says.
Datly fg§ Trojan
Volume L \VIII, No. 35
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Thursday, November 6, 1975
Coverage of Madrid unrest called misleading
By Sherie Stark
staff writer
The American news coverage of the recent political unrest in Spain presents a misleading image that contradicts the feeling of security that USC students studying there have, the director of the Madrid Semester said in a letter to the International Programs Office.
“We are unanimous in our surprise at the way recent, very limited acts of terrorism have been seen by the media as evidence that this country is on the brink of widespread confrontation,” Tom Haigh, the director, said.
The unrest Haigh’s letter refers to is a cycle of violent uprisings which began in January, 1974. In the past month, there have been a number of executions of antigovernment terrorists and assassinations of policemen.
The violence has been attributed to
far-left activists and Basque separatists in northern Spain. It has centered around Madrid, where the 14 USC students are attending school this semester, along with students from Vassar, Claremont, Mid-dlebury and Bryn Mawr colleges.
In a letter to the Daily Trojan, one of the students agreed with Haigh’s comment that American media coverage of Spain’s unrest had surprised the students, and said that she hadn’t felt the turmoil that was reported to exist.
“Of course I only know what the government permits its people to know about its political situation,” said Mary Suttie, a junior in international relations. “The newspapers are censored, which means what they wish to be kept secret you will not know.
“I have not felt any changes that have taken place since I arrived because of political actions. I live in extremely
pleasant surroundings and feel comfortable almost everywhere I go.”
In spite of the political situation, she said she enjoys the freedom of travel in the country and the cultural and educational experiences the semester program has offered her thus far.
Since they arrived in Spain, Haigh has told students that walking in Madrid at night was safer than walking at night in many parts of the United States. He said they have found this to be the case throughout the ordeals.
“The mass of this society... abhor the use of violence as a means to accomplish political ends,” Haigh wrote. “The mentality of the people has changed a great deal in 40 years, perhaps due to their present prosperity and the memory of the harshness of the civil war of the 30s.” Haigh said that, while the opinions of the students vary with the political bias of
each, all agree that they are living in a period in Spain’s development that is particularly interesting to those in the program concerned with political evolution.
“We are finding that to really begin to understand another country in either a political, historical or cultural sense, one has to weigh what one reads in the papers or what one studies in the classroom in the context ofthe whole society,” he said.
The university’s center, which was formerly the site of the U.S. Embassy, is located in a suburban area of Madrid. Most of the students are living with families near the center.
The students have majors that range from international relations to cinema. Most are juniors, but there are a few graduate students.
An estimated 50 students from this university will be participating in the program this spring.
PUBLICITY STUNT
‘Vampires’ donate blood for Red Cross drive
Some people say it is better to give than receive, but most people don’t associate this axiom with vampires.
Nine vampires arrived on Wednesday at the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house in a black limousine to give blood (their own) to the American Red Cross Blood Bank.
The purpose of the event was to publicize the Red Cross blood drive and to publicize reruns of the Dark Shadows television show.
The vampires had a different story though. They said that they were giving blood to commemorate National Vampire Friendship Month, as proclaimed by the Vampire Friendship Alliance of America.
The vampires said the month following Halloween is a slow one. They are trying to take advantage of their slow period to improve their public image. Their participation in the blood drive is an effort to present them in a different light.
The arrival ofthe vampires was witnessed by a number of surprised Row residents and several television and radio crews who were present to report the event.
Several of the vampires were not allowed to give blood because they were underweight. One vampire said, “I didn’t get enough blood last month, so they wouldn’t let me give blood today. I’m going out tonight to get some blood.”
The nurses were surprised by their unexpected guests. “I brought my cross to protect me,” Sandy Cooper, a nurse said.
Another nurse said, “I’m surprised they are giving blood instead of taking it.”
Four vampires gave blood while their comrades stood over them hissing, howling and posing for cameramen.
The vampires are actually actresses and models hired to publicize the blood drive and the television show.
The blood drive will continue today and Friday at the YWCA from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Students do not have to be vampires to participate.
I WANT YOUR BLOOD—Nine "vampires" gave blood, rather than received it, at the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house Wednesday. The vampires were on hand to publicize a week-long Red Cross
blood drive and reruns for the television show Dark Shadows. The blood will be donated to the American Red Cross Blood Bank. DT photo by Bob Selan.